Author : Julius Lester Genre : Expository Nonfiction

1. Big Question: How does an artist use music to inspire others? Author: Julius Lester Genre: Expository Nonfiction

2. Small GroupTimer

3. Review Games Story Sort VocabularyWords: • Arcade Games • Study Stack • Spelling City: Vocabulary • Spelling City: Spelling Words

4. SpellingWordsOne Consonant or Two

6. Big Question: How does an artist use music to inspire others?MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday

7. Vocabulary Words More Words to Know Vocabulary Words • appreciate • barber • choir • released • religious • slavery • teenager • gospel • posthumously • spirituals • beat • time • blended

8. Monday

9. Today we will learn about: • Build Concepts • Main Idea and Details • Graphic Organizers • Build Background • Vocabulary • Fluency: Model Tempo and Rate • Grammar: Troublesome Verbs • Spelling: One Consonant or Two • Music and Musicians

10. Fluency Model Tempo and Rate

11. Fluency: Model Tempo and Rate • Listen as I read “Bud, Not Buddy.” • As I read, notice how using different tempos, or rates of speed, mimics the flow of everyday language. • Be ready to answer questions after I finish.

12. Fluency: Model Tempo and Rate • What is the main idea of the last paragraph? • How many different instruments are mentioned in this selection?

13. Concept Vocabulary • beat– a sound made by striking something again and again • time– rate of movement in music • blended– mixed together

14. Concept Vocabulary (To add information to the graphic organizer, click on end show, type in your new information, and save your changes.)

15. Build Concept Vocabulary beat, time, blended Music and Musicians

16. Main Idea and Details, Graphic OrganizersTurn to page 346 -347..

17. Prior KnowledgeWhat do you know about blues music?

18. Prior Knowledge • This week’s audio explores famous blues songs and how they influenced other styles of music. After we listen, we will discuss what you found most interesting and most surprising about the blues.

19. Vocabulary Words

20. More Words to Know • gospel – religious music with much emotion and enthusiasm • posthumously – happening after death • spirituals – religious songs which originated among African Americans of the southern United States • (Next Slide)

21. barber

22. choir

23. GrammarTroublesome Verbs

24. set down with me and lissen to this song • Sit down with me and listen to this song. • leave me tell you about gospel musik • Let me tell you about gospel music.

25. Troublesome Verbs • Mahalia set down her purse and sat on the chair. • The verb sit and set are often confused. You must think of the meanings and the principal parts of these verbs to use them correctly..

26. Troublesome Verbs • Some pairs of verbs are confusing because they have similar meanings or because they look alike.

27. Troublesome Verbs

28. Troublesome VerbsTell the form of the underlined verb indicated in ( ). • I sit in the front row at the gospel and blues convention. (past) • sat • Someone had set a program on every seat. (past participle) • set

29. Troublesome VerbsTell the form of the underlined verb indicated in ( ). • A crew had lay a platform stage on the floor. (past participle) • laid • The lead singer had lie down for a short nap. (past participle) • lain

30. Troublesome VerbsTell the form of the underlined verb indicated in ( ). • If you leave your seat, you lost it. (past) • left • Ushers let no one in after the performance started. (past) • let

31. Troublesome VerbsUse context to help you decide which verb is needed. • Janine (set, sit) the record on the turntable. • set • Then she (sat, sit) down on the couch. • sat

32. Troublesome VerbsUse context to help you decide which verb is needed. • The music (leave, let) her relax. • let • Pretty soon, she had (laid, lain) down. • lain

33. Troublesome VerbsUse context to help you decide which verb is needed. • Her mother had (left, let) for work. • left • Before she went, she had (laid, lain) out food for lunch. • laid

34. SpellingWordsOne Consonant or Two

36. Tuesday

37. Today we will learn about: • Antonyms & Context Clues • Main Idea and Details • Vocabulary • Fluency: Echo Reading • Grammar: Troublesome Words • Spelling: One Consonant or Two • Time for Social Studies: Roots of Blues Music

38. Vocabulary Strategy: AntonymsPage 348 – 349.

39. Mahalia JacksonPage 350 - 353.

40. Fluency Echo Reading

41. Fluency: Echo Reading • Turn to page 352, the last three paragraphs. • As I read, notice how I pause at questions and slow the tempo down for emphasis. • We will practice as a class doing three echo readings of this paragraph.

42. GrammarTroublesome Verbs

43. mahalia grew up in louisiana, the state just west of missippi • Mahalia grew up in Louisiana, the state just west of Mississippi.. • her imediate family didnt stay together when her mother died • Her immediate family didn’t stay together when her mother died.

44. Troublesome Verbs • Some pairs of verbs are confusing because they have similar meanings or because they look alike. • Sit/set, lie/lay, and leave/let are examples of verbs that are often confused.

45. Troublesome Verbs

46. SpellingWordsOne Consonant or Two

48. Wednesday

49. Today we will learn about: • Graphic Sources • Fact and Opinion • Vocabulary • Fluency: Model Tempo and Rate • Grammar: Troublesome Verbs • Spelling: One Consonant or Two • Time for Social Studies: Blues Artists • Music and Musicians

50. Mahalia JacksonPage 354 - 358.